Re: [Kaldi-users] symbolic links thwart SVN

[Jan T. <af...@ce...>]

sorry, this one is the correct link:
http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.7/svn.advanced.externals.html

On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 2:08 PM, Jan Trmal <af...@ce...> wrote:

> Possibly svn:externals could be used for that (
> http://tortoisesvn.net/docs/nightly/TortoiseSVN_en/tsvn-dug-externals.html
> )
> I didn't use it much (only in a single project), but it did what I needed.
> y.
>
> On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 6:18 PM, Daniel Povey <dp...@gm...> wrote:
>
>> I'm afraid there is no very practical way to get around this now, as
>> many scripts refer explicitly to paths like
>> "steps/nnet2/train_pnorm.sh", and we're not going to create tens of
>> copies of the scripts in steps or rework all the scripts (just adding
>> those locations to PATH won't work as sometimes there are scripts with
>> the same name in different subdirectories of steps/).
>>
>> The shared-folder-on-Windows thing... that's a shame.  I do try to
>> work around "features" of Windows; you'll notice that no binaries have
>> the word "update" as part of the name.  That is a workaround for a
>> Windows issue where it tries to do privilege escalation for binaries
>> with "update" in the name.  But I don't think this one can be fixed.
>>
>> Anyway, doing "svn up" from the top level is best, since binaries can
>> change too.
>>
>> Dan
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 10:54 AM, Eric Riebling <er...@cs...> wrote:
>> > There are some places in the experiments code base where, due to
>> > symbolic links, things don't work as expected. For example, several
>> > experiments' steps/ and utils/ folders point to ../../wsj/s5/steps.
>> > This is fine, except if there was an update to the scripts in steps/ and
>> > you try 'svn up', you won't get it.
>> >
>> > Another scenario comes up if you are running Kaldi in a virtual machine,
>> > and Kaldi is installed (wholly, or in part) on a shared folder on the
>> host.
>> > Some VMs do not support symbolic links in shared folders, so various
>> parts
>> > of Kaldi will fail. (Especially when the host is Windows)
>> >
>> > I realize these may be esoteric corner cases, and most people won't try
>> this,
>> > but wanted to make a note that things can go differently than expected
>> > because of symbolic links. They're still mighty useful.
>> > --
>> >
>> > Eric Riebling      Interactive Systems Lab
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